Fluorapatite

Origin: Gischi glazier, Binntal, Switzerland
Picture height: 3mm
Sample owner: F.C.A. de Wit
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Pieter Stemvers, Leusden, Netherlands

email: stemvers@hetnet.nl

 

  
Fluorapatite crystals to 2 mm associated with siderite (up to 3 mm)
Origin: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 3 cm
 
  
Fluorapatite crystal 6 mm associated with siderite matrix
Origin: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: Olhos D'Agua mine, Jeuitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 3 cm
 
     
Origin: Golconda mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: left 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm, middle/right 3 x 2 x 2 cm
 
  
fluorapatite in albite
Origin: King Lithia mine, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm, crystals to 2 mm
 
  
fluorapatite in albite
Origin: Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 2 cm
 
  
 
  
Origin: King Lithia mine, Pennington Co., South Dakota, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6.5 x 3 x 2 cm (top), 3.5 x 3 x 3 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Locality 1, Area C, Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada
Sample size: 6 x 2.5 x 2 cm
 
  
 
  
 
  
purple, hexagonal crystals of fluorapatite to 5 mm with elbaite, todorokite and thousands of waterclear and excellent micro bertrandite crystals.
Origin: Golcaonda mine, Governador Valaderas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 3 x 3 x 2 cm (top), 4.5 x 2.5 x 1 cm (2nd row), 5 x 4.5 x 4 cm (bottom)

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Sadisdorf, Schmiedeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 10 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
luorapatite with muscovite
Origin: Jose Pinto mine, near Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
ex Lloyd Tate collection
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 5.5 cm
 
  
Fluorapatite with quartz
Origin: Corrego do Urucum, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
ex Lloyd Tate collection
Sample size: 3.5 x 4.2 x 2.2 cm
 
  
 
  
Fluorapatite with minor magnetite on matrix
Origin: Dashkesan, Azerbaijan
Sample size: 3 x 4 x 4 cm (top), 4.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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